A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

Because there's no place like home.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.